What is the Cumbrian Lakes Research Forum?
The Cumbrian Lakes Research Forum is for researchers and practitioners involved in lake and catchment management, to share knowledge on novel research, monitoring and management of lakes both locally and globally.
This year, the 11th Cumbrian Lakes Research Forum will be a hybrid event consisting of an in-person meeting at UKCEH Lancaster and online via Microsoft Teams.
Who is it for?
Anyone with an interest in the research and management of lakes and their catchments.
How to register?
In person spaces are now fully booked. To join online, email Heather Moorhouse to register: heamoo@ceh.ac.uk
Agenda
09:30 – Registration and refreshments
10:00 – Welcome and Introduction
10:10 – Freya Olsson and George Linney, Radboud University and UKCEH, “Modelling lake futures”.
10:30 – Tim Boden, Ambleside Action For a Future, “Windermere, when to swim (or not)”.
10:50 – Alex Elliott, UKCEH “Looking at the nutrient future of Windermere”.
11:10 – Coffee Break
11:30 – Group discussion session 1.
12:00 – Lunch
13:00 – Savannah Worne, Loughborough University, “Stable Isotopes as Tools for Tracing Nutrient Sources and Biogeochemical Cycling”.
13:20 – Lara Walsh, UKCEH, “Living Rent Free: Freshwater Zooplankton and their Parasites”
13:40 – Amy Thorpe, UKCEH, “'Using sedimentary DNA to reconstruct past microbial community dynamics in the Lake District”.
14:00 – Coffee Break
14:20 – Karen Slater, Natural England, “Monitoring of upland oligotrophic tarn SSSIs in Cumbria”.
14:40 – Ellie Mackay, UKCEH, “Bloomin’ Algae”.
15:00 – Matt Powell, United Utilities, "Thirlmere Resilience"
15:20 – Group discussion session 2.
15:50 – Wrap-up and final thoughts.
16:00 – Meeting close.